The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12
No. 81.

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! physical from the spiritual world,
/ the thin wall of electricity, so
/ thin the wall that ever and
/ anon it seems to be almost broken
through-broken through from our side by
| telephone and telegraphic apparatus,
| broken through from the other side by
/ strange influences which men in their ig-
norance call spiritualistic manifestations.
| All that matter cleared up. Agassiz stand
| ing amid his student explorers down in
| Brazil coming across some great novelty
| in the rocks, taking Off his hat and saying:
| Gentlemen, let US pray; we must have
/ divine illumination; we want wisdom from
the Creator to study these rocks; He made
them; let us pray" Agassiz going right
/ on with his studies forever and forever.
But what are the men Of the law, who in
| this world found their chief joy in the
| legal PROFESSIONALISM are they doing
nowf Studying law in universe
where everything is controlled by law
| from flight of humming-bird to fight
/ of world-law, not dry and hard
| and drudging, but ri i~hteous and maenif-
| icent law, before which man and cherub
| and seraph and archangel and God him.
| self bow. The chain of law long enough
to wind around the immensities and in
/ fnity and eternity. Chain Of law. What
a place TO study law, where all the links Of
| the chain are in the hand.
! What are our departed Christian friends
| who In this world had their Joy i'm the
healing art, doing now? Busy at their old
business. No sickness in Heaven, but
fplenty Of sickness on earth, plenty of
wounds in the different parts of Gods
dominion to be healed and to be medcated.
| You can not understand Why that patient
| got well after all the skillful doctors
| of New York and Brooklyn bad said he
| must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
him-Abercrombie,w who, after many years.
doctoring the bodies and the souls Of peo-
/ pie in Scotland, went up to God in 1874.
! Perhaps Abercrombie touched him.
| / should not wonder if my old friend, DR..
| John Brown, who died in Edinburoh---
| John Brown, the auther of crab and His
| Friends"-John Brown, who was as hum
! bic a Christian as he was ski'lful q
| physician and worId-renowned author-L
should not wonder if he had been back
| again and aoain to see some of his old
/ patients. Those who had their joy IN
! healing the sickness and the woes Of earth,
/ gone up to Heaven, are come forth again
! for beni~naut medicament.
Rut what are our friends who found their
! chief Joy in conversation and sociability
| doing now? In brighter conversation there
and in rrander society.
What place to visit in. where your next
door neighbors are kinos and queens. You
| yourselves kinGly and Queenly. II they
want to know more particularly about the
! FIRST paradise, they have only TO 20 over
! and * Adam. If they want to know how
tho sun and the moon halted, they have
, oniv to 20 over and ask Joshua. If they
want to know how the storm Melted Sodom,
1 they have only to go over and ask Lot. If
they want 70 know more about the arro-
/ gance Of HaTan, they have only to PC
over and ask Nordecai. If they want TO
know how the Red Sea boiled when
II was cIoven, they have only
! 60 .,,l V4 Fbnvr Mt
to know the particulars about the
Bethlehem advent, they have onlv TO 90
over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in TIE bal
comics of crystal. If they want 10 know
| more of the particulars of the crucifXion,
they have only to go over and ask those
| who were personal spectators while tho
mountains crouched and the Heavens rot
black in the face at the spectacle. IF they
| want to know more about the sufferings OF
the Scotch Covenanters, thew have only TO
go over and ask Andrew Melville. II they
! want to know more about the old time
! revivals. they have only 20 20 over and
| ask Whiteleid, and Wesley, and Living
ston, and Fletcher, and Nettlston, and Fin
ney. OF what place TO visit Ia.
| If eternity were one minute shorter 10
| would not be long enough for such social
| ity. Think Of our friends who IN this
| world were passionatelv fond of flowers,
/
| who were very fond of raising superb
fruit, turned into the orchard where each
tree has twelve kinds of fruit at once, and
bearing fruit all the wear roundi
What are our departed Christian friends
doing in Heaven, those who On earth
| found their chief iov In the Gospel minis
try2 They are visiting their old congrep A.
tions. Most OF those ministers have rot
their people around them already. When
| I get to Heaven-as by the grace Of God
am destined 20 go that place--I will come
and see you all. Yea, ! will come 60 ALI
the people to whom have admin nigtered I'm
the Gospel, and to the millions Of
souls TO whom, through the kindness Of the
printing press. l am permitted 20 preach
every week in this land, and in other lands
letters coming from New Zealand and
| Australia, and uttermost parts OF the
earth, as well as from near nations, telling
me Of the souls have helped will visit
them all. / give them fair notice. Our
departed friends Of the ministry are en-
Ra0ed In that delectable entertainment
now.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who, in all departments Of useful
ness were busy, finding their chief Joy in
doing gOod-what are they doing nowP
Going right along with the work. John
Howard visiting DUNGEONS; the dead wo-
men Of Northern and Southern battle
fields still abroad looking for the wounded;
George Peabody still watching tho poor;
Thomas Clarkson still looking after the
enslaved-ail of those who did good on
earth buster since death than before.
The tombstone not the terminus, but tho
starting post. What are our departed
Christian friends, who found their chief
Joy IN studying God, doing now2 Studying
! God vet No noed of revelation now, for
unblanched they are face to face. Now,
they can handle the omnipotent thunder
| bolts Just as a child handles the sword Of
father come back from victorious battle.
They have no sin, nor fear consequently.
Studying Christ, not through a revelation,
save the revelation of the scars, that deep
lettering which brings II all up quick
/ enough. Studying tho Christ Of the Beth
| lehem ceravansary, the Christ OF tho
awful massacre with It's hemorrhage Of
head, and hand, and foot, and side-tho
Christ OF the shattered maus0leum-Chrfst
| the sacrifice, the star, the sun, the man,
the God, tho Goldman. the man-God.
But hark tle bell Of the cathedral rings
tho cathedral bell Of heaven.
What is the matter now2 There Is going
70 be a meeting IN the temple. WorshiperB
al como through the aises. Make room
for tto conqueror. Christ standing I'm tho
temple. All heaven gathering around Him.
r. orc who los "a tho beautiful come to look
a. fhe Rose Of Sharon. Those who loved
music come 70 listen TO Ills voice. Those
wAo were mathematicians como 10 count
| tie years Of His rel n. Those who were
explorers come 10 discover the height and
depth, and the length and the breadth OF
/ His love. Those who had the mill.
tary spirit on earth sanctided, ant
tAe military spirit IN heaven, como
70 look at the captain Of their salvation